The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of
his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and
forthwith the angel departed from him.
ACT 12:11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a
surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of
the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the
Jews.
ACT 12:12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of
Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were
gathered together praying.
ACT 12:13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of
my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the
elders of the city.
DEU 22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise
him;
DEU 22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver,
and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up
an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may
not put her away all his days.
DEU 22:20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not
found for the damsel:
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The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible: whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
GEN 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
GEN 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
GEN 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
they may not understand one another's speech.
GEN 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of
all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible: meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul
saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
ACT 28:16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the
prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by
himself with a soldier that kept him.
ACT 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the
chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said
unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the
people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from
Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
ACT 28:18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because
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